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New comment by heed in "Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent"

heed — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:59:20 +0000

yea the beginning is pretty gory / horrific. it almost made me stop reading but you can't deny the world building is.. unique

New comment by heed in "GeoJSON"

heed — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:54:26 +0000

imo it's not a great solution. the problem is there is no standard or source of truth for zip code boundaries because they are a usps concept used for mail logistics. zip codes change all the time, are approximations of an area, and generally shouldn't be used for something that requires precision like calculating rates. may be ok to use as a fallback though.

also i hear your point on swe roles and don't disagree

New comment by heed in "Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison"

heed — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:54:39 +0000

it had created a config file in my home dir and i asked it to move it to the project folder and apparently it thought deleting the entire home dir first was necessary? not sure because after my home folder was gone things started disappearing lol

New comment by heed in "Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison"

heed — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:58:23 +0000

believe it or not, i had cursor in yolo mode just for fun recently and 3.7 rm -rf'd my home folder :(

New comment by heed in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"

heed — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:30:02 +0000

Eddy Cue owns Maps too

New comment by heed in "GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?"

heed — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:25:45 +0000

>Terrible policy.

And unfortunately one not exclusive to OpenAI. Anthropic credits also expire after 1 year.

New comment by heed in "Time is a dimension, but not like space"

heed — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:48:34 +0000

Also consider the speed of light is also the speed of causality. If there was no such limit it means it would be possible for effects to precede causes which would lead to a very different kind of universe!

New comment by heed in "Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers"

heed — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:59:44 +0000

I like to use copilot when writing tests. It's not always perfect but makes things less tedious for me.

New comment by heed in "Founder Mode"

heed — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 23:37:44 +0000

the way i'm thinking about it: could apple be the size it is today, in terms of market cap and or influence, being strictly ran in "founder mode"? i'm even skeptical steve jobs could have taken it here.

that's not to say the goal should always be to scale or become as big as possible, but it's interesting to think about.

New comment by heed in "Founder Mode"

heed — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 23:30:18 +0000

hot take: i find it a little irresponsible he put this out there without properly defining it / expanding on how it should be implemented. i already see people on twitter construing the concept to however they see fit.

though, to be fair he said it would take a year to do so: https://x.com/paulg/status/1830300111232188626?s=46&t=8sSeDI...

New comment by heed in "The Promise of 5-MeO-DMT"

heed — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 22:01:19 +0000

I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do.. but these toads (like the Sonoran desert toad) are increasingly becoming endangered due to poaching. It is possible to milk the venom without harming them, but a lot of poachers aren't careful or use the wrong techniques.

I also understand people believe that there is a qualitative difference between the venom and synthetic, but it's the same compound at the end of the day.

New comment by heed in "Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago"

heed — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 16:31:37 +0000

Whoa I totally forgot that Soulseek was a thing, thank you! I used to be able to find rare b-sides and live recordings of my favorite bands on it.

New comment by heed in "Llama3 implemented from scratch"

heed — Mon, 20 May 2024 00:28:31 +0000

he's using dingboard.com to edit his images. i believe the anime girl is one of the default images (or used to be) on a new canvas.

New comment by heed in "GPT-4o"

heed — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:57:54 +0000

gpt-4o can at least summarize short meetings: https://x.com/gdb/status/1790164084425646481?s=46&t=8sSeDIGv...

New comment by heed in "GPT-4o"

heed — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:49:07 +0000

Sam Altman talked a little bit about this in his recent appearance on the All-In podcast [0]. I'm paraphrasing, but his vision is that ai assistants in the near term will be like a senior level employee - they'll push back when it makes sense to and not just be sycophants.

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nSM0xd8xHUM

New comment by heed in "Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Raising Another $500M to Buy More Bitcoin"

heed — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 01:00:47 +0000

I watched part of an interview Saylor gave recently where he said the reason to invest in MSTR over an ETF is increased performance.

New comment by heed in "Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links"

heed — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:08:47 +0000

It's possible other types of music are sometimes played, but I've never personally seen it. Usually you can see where the VGM comes from scrolling at the top of the stream.

Also, zoasty explains in the pastebin that he had a lot of help setting hoot up, so I don't think the expectation is for others to be able to easily recreate what he did.

New comment by heed in "Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links"

heed — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:41:19 +0000

A worthy mention is zoasty's (super metroid speed runner and musician) alt twitch stream where hardware rips of video game music are played:

https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk

More info on the channel:

https://pastebin.com/RuAqfgqM

New comment by heed in "Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds"

heed — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:59:10 +0000

I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the article but there has been some research on the therapeutic benefits of non-hallucinogenic ibogaine analog, tabernathelog (TBG) which is also supposed remove negative cardiovascular side effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7874389/

New comment by heed in "Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future"

heed — Tue, 30 May 2023 18:28:47 +0000

Cost savings was definitely a factor, but this is the key point from the article:

"And yet, until very recently, Lyft had limited control over that navigation experience, which was built using Google Maps. “For our entire existence, we couldn’t fundamentally change that product,” says director of project management Ben Schrom."

I've worked in the mapping space for more than 20 years and I can tell you one of the biggest annoyances with using third party mapping data is that you are beholden to their cadence and tooling for making updates to the map - you have virtually no control over the data. This is a big reason both Google and Apple built their own map.

The benefit of using OSM is that you are provided decent tooling and a relatively streamlined process for making updates. Map data quality is incredibly important, especially for navigation and it's really hard to manage because the map is always changing - it's not a static thing.